The treatment of bleeding wound of solid visceral and the rescue of uncontrollable bleeding are still confronted with difficulties in surgery and first-aid field. Many researchers devote to study in the field of hemostasis, and the novel porous hemostatic agent is one of the hot spot of research about hemostasis. The review focuses on the hemostatic effect, properties, hemostatic mechanism, shortcoming and future trends of three novel porous hemostatic agents such as polysaccharides, zeolite and wollastonite.